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Standards are somewhat subjective.  They are not like facts where you can say, "this is the truth".

It's not "dodging the truth" when there is no real truth out there.  There's just more relevant and irrelevant or less relevant.  And there can be no "truth" when you are applying the standards to human beings who can be very different from one another.

If we had standards for something besides humans, say standards for bathroom toilets, well then you could measure each toilet against the standard and say whether it passed the standard or not.  But you could not say that the standard was "the truth".  Maybe the standard is that you can flush two pounds of crap with 2 gallons of water without clogging.  Whether this is possible or not is kind of important to knowing whether it's a workable standard.  It's not a "truth" thing.  And you can get people who debate the standard for all kinds of reasons.  Maybe the toilet functions differently in Denver than it does in New Orleans because of altitude or water pressure or who knows what.  But this all must be discussed.  The people in Denver would not be dodging any kind of "truth" if they disagreed over the standard.  Maybe their standard just needs to be different to be relevant for them.

Okay, I know you don't like these analogies and I'm sure you're going to look up how toilets work now.

And you are right about your sentence.  I'm sorry I was hard on you about your and you're.  [/quote]

You still didn't make your "relevance" or "truth" case and you are still dodging and deflecting.[/quote]

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